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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who invented things like firearms and steel equipment?
(a) Australians
(b) Eurasians
(c) Americans
(d) Africans

2. What is an discussion that has arisen since Diamond's work was first published?
(a) Why the differences are best explained by intelligence
(b) Why the Americas were conquered
(c) Why China didn't expand and conquer
(d) Why Europe didn't expand and conquer

3. Diamond argues that European conquest of Africa had nothing to do with what?
(a) Superior weapons
(b) Biogeography
(c) Accidents of geography
(d) Racial superiority

4. The Miao-Yao family of language is spoken where?
(a) In Mongolia
(b) In large cities from Thailand to Myanmar
(c) Small enclaves from South China to Thailand
(d) Only in China's large cities

5. Where does Diamond believe that more research needs to be done?
(a) How cultural differences influence development
(b) How biological differences influence development
(c) How racial differences influence development
(d) How intelligence differences influence development

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a major infectious disease?

2. Where did writing develop?

3. Why did Australians not develop writing, more complex technologies, or more complex societies?

4. What does Diamond attribute the differences in development to?

5. What is the first stage in the transition of diseases to humans?

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